sunken eye search

[ayiaskepi]

Hello. Can anyone send me a good pic which shows a cham with sunken eyes? Here are three of my cham. I am trying to figure out if his eyes are o.k. How sunken is sunken?

 

[Lancecham]

No need to worry!

The eyes look fine.

Here is a picture of a cham I found on the internet showing sunken eyes.

Lance

 

[viaje]

He looks plenty healthy! (and very handsome!)
I'm nursing a girl right now that is similar to the one Lancecham posted.

 

[Lizardlover]

Sunken eyes usually occur from malnutrition or dehydration, yours looks fine!

 

[dondeb562]

Eyes look great to me too!

 

[ayiaskepi]

Thanks guys.

"Igor" has been on a hunger strike for about 2.5 months or so - only eating supers and only about 3 a week. His weight seems ok and he is active, but I am still a bit worried. His pooping has been VERY reduced, but I have seen it picking up a bit recently. Hardly anything, though. I just ordered some horn worms and silkies to try to stimulate him to eat. Hope it works. Any suggestions would be great.

 

[linzbug]

Its wierd you mention that your cham seems to have sunken eyes and hes on a hunger strike because similarly my cham is doing the same. As im new to the forum I asked for some help/advice because I didn't have a clue what to do next and I was just so worried about him. Its only his left eye thats kinda sunk and his eating has deteriorated a lot. To be on the safe side and to put my mind at rest ive got him booked in to see a vet hopefully nothing too serious!

 

[BigBlue]

Thanks guys.

"Igor" has been on a hunger strike for about 2.5 months or so - only eating supers and only about 3 a week. His weight seems ok and he is active, but I am still a bit worried. His pooping has been VERY reduced, but I have seen it picking up a bit recently. Hardly anything, though. I just ordered some horn worms and silkies to try to stimulate him to eat. Hope it works. Any suggestions would be great.

I went through the hunger strike thing for about 3 months. I was pretty worried, she would only eat horn worms once a week. She stopped basking and sat on a fairly low covered branch. After about 3 months she went back to eating crickets again and basking. I think it may have been a type of brumation although I dont think panthers are supposed to go into brumation.

 

[Lancecham]

Aylaskepi,
I am not sure how old your cham is, but by the looks of it he is a young adult. There could be a few reasons why he isn't eating as much as he did before.
1) He is a young adult. After chames go through their major growth spurt(around 7 to 9 months of age) their eating slows down as they are not growing as much.
2) During the winter time, chams slow their eating down a bit. While you still have a heat lamp providing heat. The ambient temperature in the cage is lower. Also, chams notice there is less daylight hours this time of the year and will tend to go to sleep earlier.
3) He could be getting bored of the same food items. I know you are going to try other food items.

The fat resrve on top of his head is very pronounced. That is a good thing. You can tell he is getting enough food and is healthy.

Lance
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